Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.

A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and acquiesce when his opinion is freely overruled, will attain his object in the end.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.